Ninjago Angst Week Day 2: Lost
@ninjago-angst-week here’s my entry for day 2!
This takes place during season 3 episode 8
Trigger warning: mentions of death
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To exist in the middle of empty space is to not exist at all.
Zane cannot say he wakes, for he now exists in a plane in which consciousness is meaningless.
He’s dead, he knows that much. He’d sacrificed himself to save his friends (and he hopes to the First Spinjitzu Master that it worked, he doesn’t know what he’d do if he failed).
Something about the world is different than he’d imagined it to be. Especially since discovering that he was a nindroid, he’d imagined death time after time after time.
This is not how he thought death would be.
There is an infinite body of snow branched out around him. The sky is grey and muggy, but snowflakes do not fall.
He runs his fingers through the powdery snow. The world around him is silent, peaceful.
He would do it again in a heartbeat, this he knows.
He hopes the others don’t spend too much time mourning him. He wants them to move on, to continue making the world a safe place, even without him.
Perhaps this is a blessing. For the past few years, he’s questioned if he even has the ability to move into the departed realm.
But he’s dead, and there’s nowhere else this could be.
Unless...
He digs his fingers just a little deeper into the snow, feeling around.
Finally, he finds the ground. It buzzes under his fingertips, and while it’s mostly solid, it almost flows like a stream.
He should have realized that he’d been preserved in the Digiverse.
He’s so, so relieved. He can come back, he can see his friends again. Everything is going to be okay. However, the question burns his mind, more scalding than before.
He is a nindroid. When he truly dies, what will become of him?
